Volume 133, Issue 4

26 July 2024

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On the Cover

Nineteen cosmic ray events with energies in excess of 10²⁰ eV detected by the Telescope Array observatory (white dots). Colors indicate expected distribution of the cosmic ray flux.

From the article:

Isotropy of Cosmic Rays beyond $10^{20} eV$ Favors Their Heavy Mass Composition
R. U. Abbasi et al. (Telescope Array Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 041001 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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No Black Holes from Light

Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez, Luis J. Garay, Eduardo Martín-Martínez, and José Polo-Gómez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 041401 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

The formation of a black hole from light alone is permitted by general relativity, but a new study says quantum physics rules it out.

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Biomimetic Synchronization in Biciliated Robots

Yiming Xia, Zixian Hu, Da Wei, Ke Chen, Yi Peng, and Mingcheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048302 (2024) - Published 24 July, 2024

How an alga synchronizes its two flapping cilia to propel itself is revealed in a tabletop experiment with chains of mobile robots.

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New Regime of Inertial Alfvén Wave Turbulence in the Auroral Ionosphere

Francesca Di Mare and Gregory G. Howes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 045201 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

Data analysis from the TRICE-2 sounding rocket in the auroral ionosphere revealed a regime of inertial Alfvén wave turbulence with properties distinct from heliospheric and solar wind plasma turbulence that allows the identification of features related to ionospheric plasma and turbulence cascade which are difficult to access in the laboratory.

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Collisionless Magnetorotational Turbulence in Pair Plasmas: Steady-State Dynamics, Particle Acceleration, and Radiative Cooling

Fabio Bacchini, Vladimir Zhdankin, Evgeny A. Gorbunov, Gregory R. Werner, Lev Arzamasskiy, Mitchell C. Begelman, and Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 045202 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

The largest 3D fully kinetic shearing-box simulations of pair-plasma magnetorotational turbulence which take into account the radiation reaction self-consistently show how particles can be accelerated efficiently to nonthermal energies independently of initial conditions.

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Hybrid van der Waals Epitaxy

Lin Hu, Danshuo Liu, Fawei Zheng, Xuelin Yang, Yugui Yao, Bo Shen, and Bing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046102 (2024) - Published 24 July, 2024

The growth of a nitride epilayer on a van der Waals substrate follows a new growth mechanism, different from the previously known models of material growth.

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Quasimolecular $J_{tet} = 3 / 2$ Moments in the Cluster Mott Insulator ${GaTa}_{4} {Se}_{8}$

M. Magnaterra, J. Attig, L. Peterlini, M. Hermanns, M. H. Upton, Jungho Kim, L. Prodan, V. Tsurkan, I. Kézsmárki, P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, and M. Grüninger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046501 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

The cluster Mott character of the lacunar spinel GaTa $_{4}$ Se $_{8}$ has been determined using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering.

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Inverse Spin Hall Effect Dominated Spin-Charge Conversion in (101) and (110)-Oriented ${RuO}_{2}$ Films

Z. Q. Wang, Z. Q. Li, L. Sun, Z. Y. Zhang, K. He, H. Niu, J. Cheng, M. Yang, X. Yang, G. Chen, Z. Yuan, H. F. Ding, and B. F. Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046701 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

A method based on spin-pumping and symmetry disentangles the effects of spin Hall and spin splitting phenomena in RuO $_{2}$ and other altermagnets.

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Giant Piezoelectric Effects of Topological Structures in Stretched Ferroelectric Membranes

Yihao Hu, Jiyuan Yang, and Shi Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046802 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Emergence of helical dipole spirals in ferroelectric PbTiO $_{3}$ is expected to increase the piezoelectric response by approximately 400%.

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Magneto-optical Particles in Isotropic Spinning Fields Mimic Magnetic Monopoles

Manuel I. Marqués, Shulamit Edelstein, Pedro A. Serena, Beatriz Castillo López de Larrinzar, and Antonio Garcia-Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046901 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

Quasiparticles propelled by an isotropic radiation spinning field combined with an external static magnetic field are shown to behave like magnetic monopoles.

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Collective Charge Excitations between Moiré Minibands in Twisted ${WSe}_{2}$ Bilayers Probed with Resonant Inelastic Light Scattering

Nihit Saigal, Lennart Klebl, Hendrik Lambers, Sina Bahmanyar, Veljko Antić, Dante M. Kennes, Tim O. Wehling, and Ursula Wurstbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046902 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

Collective electronic excitations between moiré-bands in twisted WSe $_{2}$ bilayers may be probed by resonant inelastic light scattering, a sensitive way to access the moiré-bands and to study their unique properties.

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Mutual Linearity of Nonequilibrium Network Currents

Pedro E. Harunari, Sara Dal Cengio, Vivien Lecomte, and Matteo Polettini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 047401 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

Any two stationary network currents are linearly related upon perturbations of the transition rate of a single graph’s edge, arbitrarily far from equilibrium.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Accelerated Decay due to Operator Spreading in Bulk-Dissipated Quantum Systems

Tatsuhiko Shirai and Takashi Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040201 (2024) - Published 24 July, 2024

Inferring Physical Properties of Symmetric States from the Fewest Copies

Da-Jian Zhang and D. M. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040202 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

Analyzing Quantum Entanglement with the Schmidt Decomposition in Operator Space

Chengjie Zhang, Sophia Denker, Ali Asadian, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040203 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Experimental Validation of Enhanced Information Capacity by Quantum Switch in Accordance with Thermodynamic Laws

Cheng Xi, Xiangjing Liu, Hongfeng Liu, Keyi Huang, Xinyue Long, Daniel Ebler, Xinfang Nie, Oscar Dahlsten, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040401 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Optimality and Noise Resilience of Critical Quantum Sensing

U. Alushi, W. Górecki, S. Felicetti, and R. Di Candia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040801 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

Estimation of Hamiltonian Parameters from Thermal States

Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Kishor Bharti, Jacob Bringewatt, Hossein Dehghani, Adam Ehrenberg, Nicole Yunger Halpern, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040802 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Isotropy of Cosmic Rays beyond $10^{20} eV$ Favors Their Heavy Mass Composition

R. U. Abbasi et al. (Telescope Array Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 041001 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

No Black Holes from Light

Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez, Luis J. Garay, Eduardo Martín-Martínez, and José Polo-Gómez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 041401 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

The formation of a black hole from light alone is permitted by general relativity, but a new study says quantum physics rules it out.

Particles and Fields

First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 041801 (2024) - Published 24 July, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Compound-Nucleus and Doorway-State Decays of $β$ -Delayed Neutron Emitters ${}^{51, 52, 53}K$

Z. Y. Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 042501 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

Nuclear Structure Effects on Hyperfine Splittings in Ordinary and Muonic Deuterium

Chen Ji, Xiang Zhang, and Lucas Platter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 042502 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin-Polarization Control of Photoelectrons Using Poincaré Fields

Daniel Younis, Daniel F. Gordon, and Bahman Hafizi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 043201 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

Microscopic Study on Superexchange Dynamics of Composite Spin-1 Bosons

An Luo, Yong-Guang Zheng, Wei-Yong Zhang, Ming-Gen He, Ying-Chao Shen, Zi-Hang Zhu, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 043401 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Nonreciprocal Bundle Emissions of Quantum Entangled Pairs

Qian Bin, Hui Jing, Ying Wu, Franco Nori, and Xin-You Lü

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 043601 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Generation of Isolated Subfemtosecond Electron Bunches by the Diffraction of a Polarization-Tailored Intense Laser Beam

Ke Hu and Longqing Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 045001 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

Guided Mode Evolution and Ionization Injection in Meter-Scale Multi-GeV Laser Wakefield Accelerators

J. E. Shrock, E. Rockafellow, B. Miao, M. Le, R. C. Hollinger, S. Wang, A. J. Gonsalves, A. Picksley, J. J. Rocca, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 045002 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Regime of Inertial Alfvén Wave Turbulence in the Auroral Ionosphere

Francesca Di Mare and Gregory G. Howes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 045201 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collisionless Magnetorotational Turbulence in Pair Plasmas: Steady-State Dynamics, Particle Acceleration, and Radiative Cooling

Fabio Bacchini, Vladimir Zhdankin, Evgeny A. Gorbunov, Gregory R. Werner, Lev Arzamasskiy, Mitchell C. Begelman, and Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 045202 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Systematic Absences of Optical Phonon Modes in Phonon Dispersion Measured by Electron Microscopy

Aowen Li (李傲雯), Paul M. Zeiger, Zuxian He (何祖贤), Mingquan Xu (许名权), Stephen J. Pennycook, Ján Rusz, and Wu Zhou (周武)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046101 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hybrid van der Waals Epitaxy

Lin Hu, Danshuo Liu, Fawei Zheng, Xuelin Yang, Yugui Yao, Bo Shen, and Bing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046102 (2024) - Published 24 July, 2024

The growth of a nitride epilayer on a van der Waals substrate follows a new growth mechanism, different from the previously known models of material growth.

How Accurate Are Simulations and Experiments for the Lattice Energies of Molecular Crystals?

Flaviano Della Pia, Andrea Zen, Dario Alfè, and Angelos Michaelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046401 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

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Quasimolecular $J_{tet} = 3 / 2$ Moments in the Cluster Mott Insulator ${GaTa}_{4} {Se}_{8}$

M. Magnaterra, J. Attig, L. Peterlini, M. Hermanns, M. H. Upton, Jungho Kim, L. Prodan, V. Tsurkan, I. Kézsmárki, P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, and M. Grüninger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046501 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

The cluster Mott character of the lacunar spinel GaTa $_{4}$ Se $_{8}$ has been determined using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering.

Spin-Charge-Lattice Coupling across the Charge Density Wave Transition in a Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet

Xiaokun Teng, David W. Tam, Lebing Chen, Hengxin Tan, Yaofeng Xie, Bin Gao, Garrett E. Granroth, Alexandre Ivanov, Philippe Bourges, Binghai Yan, Ming Yi, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046502 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

Local Excitation of Kagome Spin Ice Magnetism Seen by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Hanbin Deng, Tianyu Yang, Guowei Liu, Lu Liu, Lingxiao Zhao, Wu Wang, Tiantian Li, Wei Song, Titus Neupert, Xiang-Rui Liu, Jifeng Shao, Y. Y. Zhao, Nan Xu, Hao Deng, Li Huang, Yue Zhao, Liyuan Zhang, Jia-Wei Mei, Liusuo Wu, Jiaqing He, Qihang Liu, Chang Liu, and Jia-Xin Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046503 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

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Inverse Spin Hall Effect Dominated Spin-Charge Conversion in (101) and (110)-Oriented ${RuO}_{2}$ Films

Z. Q. Wang, Z. Q. Li, L. Sun, Z. Y. Zhang, K. He, H. Niu, J. Cheng, M. Yang, X. Yang, G. Chen, Z. Yuan, H. F. Ding, and B. F. Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046701 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

A method based on spin-pumping and symmetry disentangles the effects of spin Hall and spin splitting phenomena in RuO $_{2}$ and other altermagnets.

Electric Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Rare-Earth-Substituted ${BiFeO}_{3}$ with Ferrielectricity

Shiji Xu, Xin Wang, L. Bellaiche, and Bin Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046801 (2024) - Published 24 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Piezoelectric Effects of Topological Structures in Stretched Ferroelectric Membranes

Yihao Hu, Jiyuan Yang, and Shi Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046802 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Emergence of helical dipole spirals in ferroelectric PbTiO $_{3}$ is expected to increase the piezoelectric response by approximately 400%.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magneto-optical Particles in Isotropic Spinning Fields Mimic Magnetic Monopoles

Manuel I. Marqués, Shulamit Edelstein, Pedro A. Serena, Beatriz Castillo López de Larrinzar, and Antonio Garcia-Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046901 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

Quasiparticles propelled by an isotropic radiation spinning field combined with an external static magnetic field are shown to behave like magnetic monopoles.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Charge Excitations between Moiré Minibands in Twisted ${WSe}_{2}$ Bilayers Probed with Resonant Inelastic Light Scattering

Nihit Saigal, Lennart Klebl, Hendrik Lambers, Sina Bahmanyar, Veljko Antić, Dante M. Kennes, Tim O. Wehling, and Ursula Wurstbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046902 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

Ab Initio Self-Trapped Excitons

Yunfei Bai, Yaxian Wang, and Sheng Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046903 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Spin Polarization via Adiabatic and Counterdiabatic Engineering

Samuel Bladwell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 047001 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Convergence to the Asymptotic Large Deviation Limit

Maxime Debiossac, Nikolai Kiesel, and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 047101 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

Two Distinct Transitions in a Population of Coupled Oscillators with Turnover: Desynchronization and Stochastic Oscillation Quenching

Ayumi Ozawa and Hiroshi Kori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 047201 (2024) - Published 22 July, 2024

Ghost Channels and Ghost Cycles Guiding Long Transients in Dynamical Systems

D. Koch, A. Nandan, G. Ramesan, I. Tyukin, A. Gorban, and A. Koseska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 047202 (2024) - Published 25 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mutual Linearity of Nonequilibrium Network Currents

Pedro E. Harunari, Sara Dal Cengio, Vivien Lecomte, and Matteo Polettini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 047401 (2024) - Published 23 July, 2024

Any two stationary network currents are linearly related upon perturbations of the transition rate of a single graph’s edge, arbitrarily far from equilibrium.

Shortest-Path Percolation on Random Networks

Minsuk Kim and Filippo Radicchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 047402 (2024) - Published 26 July, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Biomimetic Synchronization in Biciliated Robots

Yiming Xia, Zixian Hu, Da Wei, Ke Chen, Yi Peng, and Mingcheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048302 (2024) - Published 24 July, 2024

How an alga synchronizes its two flapping cilia to propel itself is revealed in a tabletop experiment with chains of mobile robots.